Fun in the Basin

We spent the 24th of July in Drew's hometown. Every year they have a big celebration. Here are some photos of the morning parade.

CANDY, CANDY, CANDY!!!!

Aunt Karen was in the parade celebrating her 50 year high school reunion. Awesome!

Backpacking the Uintahs

Here are some photos of a backpacking trip, Drew and I made with our friends Dave and Jaime in the Uintah Mountains on July 8th. It was my first time backpacking and I wasn't sure what to expect. But luckily Drew had taken this route many times and guided us to an awesome location.

This is a photo just before we took off up the trail. Here's the top of one of the mountains we had to climb - elevation 11,070 feet. It was about 4 hours into the hike and I was already exhausted. But at least we could see the finish line from here.

Believe it or not, this was the first thing we did when we arrived at our camp site. The place was loaded with fish. So many, that you could catch them with your bare hands. NO JOKE! Dave making dinner.

Drew enjoying some fishing.

Here's our little two man tent we rented from REI.

OK, so look closely at this picture, to get an idea of how many fish were in the stream.

Drew made quite a nice camp site for us. Too bad there were about a billion mosquitos driving us crazy. That's the reason for the hoods.

How awesome is this?

This is our hike back two days later.

This is one of the hills we had to climb.

And this is basically what the trail looked like. Not the easiest hike in the world, especially when you're carrying a 30 pound pack.

Our last picture before jumping into the truck and heading for a shower. That night we took the kids to pizza and a movie. It was a really exhausting but fun trip and I hope to do it again...maybe next year.